biography
| name: |
Penzias, Arno (Allan)
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pronunciation:
[penzias]
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| male
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| lived:
| (1933– )
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| biography:
| Astrophysicist, born in Munich, SE Germany. A refugee with his family from Nazi Germany, he studied at Colombia University, joining the Bell Telephone Laboratories in 1961. In 1965 he and his colleague Robert Wilson, exploring the Milky Way with a radio telescope, discovered cosmic microwave background radiation - a discovery which has provided some of the strongest evidence for the ‘big bang’ theory for the origin of the universe. They shared the Nobel Prize for Physics in 1978. |
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